Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-05-12
DAKOTA CONVERSATIONS.

Alexandria is building q new hotel.
The Miller schools have an enrolment
of 1875 pupils.
The DeSmet building association
loaned $4,000 last year.
The iron on the Ma stoba extension
:wcss will reach LnddeI his week.
T. q. Ketchnm has bee. chosen presi-
dent of the Huron board of education.
More shade trees have been set out
this spring at alexandria than ever be-
fore.
The laws are now ready for the printer,
and it is likely they will be ready for
distribution n sixty days.
The question of voting q special tax of
$500 at Bridgewater to aid the McCook
county fair was carried By thirteen ma.
iorIty.
Hanson county farmers are about
through seeding with a larger acreage
than ever before in the history of that
county.
The citizens committee of Huron has
accepted the offer Of Phillips & Hobson
to establish a tow mill for 8 small bonus
and the mill is now an assured fact.
The troops now posted at Fort Suliy
| will be sent eaet the 1st of June, to
Buffalo, New York and eight companies
Of regulars from that city will be trans.
planted to Fort Sully.
A farmer named Wright, sixty years
Of age, hanged himself Sunday night in
a barn ON his farm near Arvilla, Grand
Forks county. When found he was
dead. No cause is assigned.
The territorial superintendent of pub
lie instruction is having $4,000 copies
OF the new school law printed in psmph-
let form for distribution. They will be
ready about the first of next month,
Capt. N. II. Kingman has rendered
his resignation to the postmaster gen.
eral as postmaster at Bangor. The
resignation wGs gwen in favor Of Mr..
Charles e.. Hayden, who will doubtless
receive the appointment.
8. O;:Clapper and Miss Insz Ribble
4 sssre united IN the holy bands of matri-
mony at Springfield on last Thursday
night and the next day the groom Yves
arrested and placed in Jail charged with
seduction Of the brides sister.
The court house square. OF Alexandra
has received improvements the pas.
week in the way of trees and an ever
green hedge that will make the grounds
as we'll as the house the especial
pride Of every citizen Of Hanson county,
Alexander MoOrostie is putting down
an artesian well on his farm south OF
Huron. The well is now about TOO feet
deep, at which point q flow of water war
sNruck that has steadily increased. Mr.
Crostie proposes to sink the we'll as deer
as the city well if necessary to obtain o
flow of good water.
Governor Church, in response to an
invitation from the fremen's association
has signifed his intention of being pre-.
sent at the tournament at Mitchell next
month. he will be accomp lined by
Mrs. Church and Miss Hattie Dakota
While IN the city they will be the guests
OF MIR. and Mrs. I'D. LAWYER.
The total indebtedness of the city Of
Grand Forks is sss ,o0o; assessed valua.
tion, $1,40s.6 GA; money in the treasury
$4,000. The outgoing council leaves
the city IN o prosperous.condition fnap-
cially, the assets in water works, eto,
independent Of cash on hand being
Sl5O, 900.
Forty.fye men engaged on the sur
facing gang on the Milwaukee st Lake
Preston ven on . strike Wednesday,
morning. They demanded an increase